In the tent, the crowd was studying the map.

According to the latest information, the young officers in the Salonika garrison were actively preparing for an uprising and then receiving Kemal into the city, but there were still quite a few recalcitrant officers in the city, and they still had quite a few troops in their hands.

"According to the information we have, there are 20 infantry regiments and 3 garrison regiments of the Turkish Third Army stationed in the city of Thessaloniki and the surrounding areas, and in addition to the 4 infantry regiments we defeated last time, there are still about 30,000 troops!" Kemal pointed to the map, "At present, most of these troops are concentrated in the city of Thessaloniki, and the young officers who are preparing to revolt can control about 5 regiments, which means that we still have to face about 20,000 Turkish government troops, but I think many of them will fall to us!" ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, and in addition to the troops of the Oli regiment and Kemal, there were several other partisan detachments and two "guerrilla generals", which made everyone very troubled in terms of command. These two people always wanted to make themselves the commander-in-chief, but Kemal's troops were all brought out by Ollie, let alone the Oli regiment. So they never succeeded, but Ollie and Kemal were unable to command their troops, and there were many inconveniences in coordinating operations.

"I think I should lead the troops to attack from the front and rush directly into the city!" General Rameau, the leader of a guerrilla unit operating near Thessaloniki, was part of the pro-armed revolutionary wing of the Young Turks party, along with Kemal.

"No, I think I should persuade them to surrender, they are not vulnerable at all!" General Ilke, a member of another Allied party, brought his partisan detachment from Kirkis.

"I agree with General Rameau!"

"No, I think it's okay to persuade you to surrender!"

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Ollie really didn't want to listen to these boring and childish arguments, and walked out of the tent in silence alone. The people inside the tent were nothing more than arguing for their own interests, and few were thinking about what was substantial in the battle. Watching one's own soldiers drill neatly is a pleasure. Recently, there have been many more people in the camp, and in addition to the prisoners captured last time, many guerrillas have come to join, and the whole barracks seems to be as noisy as a big vegetable market, and the environment is not much better than in the tent just now.

The POWs were confined in the northwest corner of the camp, and they seemed to be very happy with it, enjoying three free meals a day, basking in the sun carefree, and looking at their laid-back appearance, one felt that the soldiers did not need to look after them at all.

As Ollie walked through the prisoner of war camp, General Fatih, with his head bandaged, ran to the fence and shouted at him.

"What is he talking about, translator?" Ollie couldn't understand what the guy was talking about, so he had to call for a translator.

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, he said that he is Major General Fatih of the Turkish army, and he wants to talk to you!"

"Major General Fatih? Bring him to my tent. Ollie thought it was strange that these captives Kemal had already been interrogated before, why did this guy talk to him.

"Your Excellency, please be seated! Do you have any advice? In the tent, Rioli sat face to face with Fatih.

"I have a small request, I want to know who I was defeated!" Fatih's tone carried with his usual arrogance.

"Turkish partisans! Turkish partisans led by Colonel Kemal! ”

"But you and your soldiers must be Germans!" Fatih looked at Ollie calmly, "Most of your equipment here is made in Germany!" I know them, Mauser 1898 rifles! ”

"Not bad! Your Excellency, these arms were bought from Germany! As for me and my soldiers, it's a bunch of wanderers! "Ollie is a little sorry for bringing this guy in, and the identity of his unit is to try not to let outsiders know.

"But what do you say about the plane! As far as I know, now only Germany, Great Britain, France and the United States have such a thing! Fatih asked, still arrogantly.

"Your Excellency, General! I want you to understand who you are and where you are! It's not your turn to ask these questions here! Ollie slapped the table hard, as if he was being interrogated.

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel! How can you speak to a general like that! Fatih stood up dissatisfied.

"I'm sorry, but you are now a prisoner of the Turkish revolutionary guerrillas and a defeated of our men! Forget about your general! Ollie despised this guy's ignorance and arrogance from the bottom of his heart, but that day he operated the machine gun to fight until the last moment, and the fighting spirit was still very rare, so his tone softened again, "We spent a lot of money to buy some parts from the German factory, and then assembled it ourselves!" Now you have to answer my question seriously! ”

"Oh......" Fatih was a little surprised, but did not ask any further.

"Listen to my soldiers, you were the only one who held out in a machine-gun position while your army was running wildly, and you wounded one of our planes with a machine gun! Congratulations! I think your government should award you a medal. ”

"Those cowards!" Ollie's words were right at Fatih's sore spot, and he gritted his teeth and began to curse the fleeing soldiers.

"Your Excellency, your deeds deserve my admiration! You've done your best as a soldier, and I hope you'll work with us next! ”

"Cooperation?" Fatih looked at Ollie in bewilderment.

"Yes! Cooperate! "Ollie already had a very good idea in mind. Later, he called Kemal, and the two discussed it for a long time, and finally developed a battle plan to capture Thessaloniki.

Founded in 316 BC, Thessaloniki is one of the oldest cities in Europe. The city was named after the wife of the king of Macedonia, the sister of Alexander the Great, and has since become the capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia. As the gateway to the Balkans, Thessaloniki is the commercial center of the entire Balkans, home to hundreds of thousands of people and home to more than 30,000 soldiers of Turkey's Third Army.

A week later, Fritz, the "Landing Angel", began dropping flyers over Thessaloniki with his flying squad. These leaflets were handwritten by General Fatih and his soldiers to show their support for the revolution. It not only revealed how the officers withheld the soldiers' salaries, how they sent spies to monitor them, but also publicized the future of the revolution and the preferential policies of the revolutionary party, and for a time the soldiers of the Salonika garrison were shaken, and there were constantly small groups of soldiers under the leadership of young officers who quietly went out of the city to join Kemal's troops, so that a few days later the commander of the garrison in Salonika declared martial law in the whole city, and no one was allowed to enter or leave Salonika, but this only made the morale of the army even lower. And the people of the city, who were extremely dissatisfied with this, also clashed with the army.

A few days later, Kemal and Ollie drove outside Thessaloniki with their troops. Although the Turkish army inside Thessaloniki had the advantage in numbers, they did not choose to go out of the city to meet the attack, and simply dug some trenches and other fortifications outside the city, and the Turkish soldiers in these fortifications only watched the revolutionary army line up from a distance, and the whole of Thessaloniki was shrouded in a terrifying silence. When the plane flew over to Thessaloniki and dropped the leaflets again, Thessaloniki finally broke out in silence. The soldiers in the city, led by the young officers, began to riot, first with one battalion, then another, and in less than an hour the whole city was filled with gunfire.

"That's it! It's time for us to act! Seeing the disorganization of the soldiers inside the fortifications on the outskirts of Thessaloniki, Kemal put down his binoculars and looked at the neat queue behind him.

"Okay!" Ollie looked very reluctant, and if he wanted to make an imposing charge, he had to let his Ollie regiment rush ahead. He prayed that the situation in the city had been controlled by the insurrectionary army, and if the situation was not controlled, then he could only hope that the Turkish soldiers had not properly trained in shooting, otherwise casualties in street fighting were inevitable.

"Officers of the Oli Regiment, forward!"

Twelve hundred German soldiers marched in three columns, puffed out their chests, sang their familiar military songs, and marched in orderly steps toward Thessaloniki.

"The great war is coming, tears are running across my mother's face, the motherland is behind me, the footsteps of the enemy are heard in the distance, the earth is trembling, it is time to defend justice, the blood is already surging, the last leaf on the dry branches is knocked down by the cold wind, the lightning tears through the black curtain of the bearing in the distance, and the heroic soldiers are advancing."

Behind them were Kemal's troops and several other partisan detachments, numbering in the thousands. Although the queue was far less neat than that of the Oli regiment, they also followed the example of the German soldiers, swaggering forward with their chests held high.

Perhaps overwhelmed by this momentum, perhaps the leaflet offensive of the previous days had worked, or perhaps perhaps the revolution had been thought of for a long time, in short, the soldiers outside the city hung up the white flag without firing a single shot, and sat on the edge of the trenches waiting for the arrival of the Oli regiment and Kemal's troops.

The situation in Thessaloniki was worse at this time, and when the Oli regiment entered the city, they found that the streets were full of soldiers with swords and guns raised, but they could not tell who was the enemy and who was their own, and they could not continue to advance, so they could only stand by in the same place at a loss.

Kemal then also entered the city, and seeing this, he rode up to the soldiers and shouted: "Turkish soldiers, it's time for revolution!" We want to restore the constitution and punish traitors! ”

After a few minutes of silence, a Turkish soldier smashed the butt of a rifle into the officer next to him and shouted: "Let's not die for these people!" Revolution! The situation immediately changed, and the soldiers who had been preparing to "suppress the rebellion" joined the ranks of the revolutionaries, and the crowd began to pour into the Doge's Palace in the city center.

The front of the Governor's Palace in Thessaloniki was soon surrounded by revolutionary soldiers, and two Maxim heavy machine guns were erected in front of the Governor's Palace, but in the face of the surging soldiers, the officers and machine gunners guarding there were like leaves in the sea, ready to be swallowed up at any time.

"Lay down your weapons, this place is surrounded by revolutionary Turkish warriors!" The soldiers made way for Kemal, who had arrived on horseback, and the revolutionary leader soon came to the door of the Doge's Palace, and after giving a short but inspiring speech to the soldiers, he led them into the Doge's palace and pulled out the Governor, who was hiding in the toilet and shivering.

Just after Kemal and his soldiers occupied the Doge's palace in Thessaloniki, Ollie drove his Orly regiment outside Thessaloniki to repair due to an accident due to a language barrier. At this time, although there were still a few stubborn officers and soldiers in the city of Thessaloniki, the city had basically calmed down. Ollie found it difficult to understand this pattern of war and revolution with Turkish characteristics, and his Oli regiment barely fired a shot during the entire farcical siege, and of course left a large amount of money for Chentian.

But Ollie didn't expect it, and the unexpectedly fierce battle soon ensued......